Radio unit, baseband processing unit and base station system

• US 9,220,004 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2013
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Cheng, Xinhao, Li, Mingqiang, Lin, Yonghua, Wang, Qing, Xue, Chao, Yan, Rong, Zhan, Hai, Zhu, Chao
• Primary Examiner(s): Elpenord, Candal
• Application Number:
  US13/927,931
• Publication Number:
  US 20130322336A1
• Time in Patent Office: 909 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/00 Network data management

Abstract

A radio unit configured to connect to a baseband processing unit includes a transformation unit configured to obtain uplink time domain signal data and transform the uplink time domain signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data; and a compression unit configured to compress the uplink frequency domain signal data by using a compression algorithm.

Claims

1. A method for processing uplink signal data in a base station system, the base station system comprising a radio unit and a baseband processing unit, the method comprising:

obtaining, in the radio unit, uplink time domain signal data, collecting parameters of the time domain signal data, and estimating a compression ratio of the uplink time domain signal data based on the parameters;

transforming the uplink time domain signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data;

compressing, in the radio unit, the uplink frequency domain signal data according to a compression mode by using a first compression algorithm;

generating a feedback signal indicating an actual compression ratio resulting from compressing the uplink frequency domain signal data;

dynamically controlling the compression mode based on a comparison between the actual compression ratio indicated by the feedback signal and the estimated compression ratio;

transmitting the compressed uplink frequency domain signal data from the radio unit to the baseband processing unit when the actual compression ratio is greater than or equal to the estimated compression ratio, and transforming the uplink frequency domain signal data back into the uplink time domain signal data and compressing uplink time domain signal data by using a second compression algorithm when the actual compression ratio is less than the estimated compression ratio; and

decompressing, in the baseband processing unit, the compressed uplink frequency domain signal data or the compressed uplink time domain signal data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining the compression mode of uplink signal data, the compression mode comprising a time domain compression mode and a frequency domain compression mode.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising determining the compression mode based on at least one of:

an estimation of compression ratio of the uplink time domain signal data; and

actual compression ratio feedback from a compression unit.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising notifying which compression mode is initiated via at least one of the following manners:

sending a mode notification signal; and

adding a domain mode tag in the uplink time domain signal data.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising transmitting uplink time domain signal data directly to the compression unit without passing through a transformation unit in response to initiating the time domain compression mode, and compressing the obtained uplink time domain signal data by using the compression algorithm corresponding to the time domain compression mode.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising transforming the uplink time domain signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data in response to initiating the frequency domain compression mode, and transmitting the uplink time domain signal data directly to the compression unit in response to initiating the time domain compression mode, and compressing the obtained uplink time domain signal data by using the compression algorithm corresponding to the time domain compression mode.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining compressed downlink signal data from the baseband processing unit and decompressing the compressed downlink signal data; and

obtaining downlink time domain signal data by inversely transforming the decompressed downlink signal data.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising obtaining the compression mode of downlink signal data, transmitting decompressed downlink signal data to the inverse transformation unit in response to initiating the frequency domain compression mode of the downlink signal data, and making decompressed downlink signal data bypass an inverse transformation unit in response to initiating the time domain compression mode of the downlink signal data.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising obtaining the compression mode of downlink signal data, inversely transforming decompressed downlink signal data into downlink time domain signal data in response to initiating the frequency domain compression mode of the downlink signal data, and directly outputting decompressed downlink signal data without performing inverse transformation in response to initiating the time domain compression mode of the downlink signal data.